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Definition: Blotchy |
BlotchyAdjective1. Marked with irregularly shaped spots or blots. 2. Marred by discolored spots or blotches; "blotchy skin". Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "blotchy" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1762. (references) |
Synonyms: BlotchySynonyms: blotched (adj), splotched (adj). (additional references) |
| Domain | Title |
Books | |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Subject | Topic | Quote |
Health | Marked morphologic changes in all parts of the skin, except perhaps the subcutaneous tissue, are recognized as consequences of exposure to UVR. These changes underlie the clinically observed sagging, wrinkling, leathery texture, and blotchy discoloration of skin typically associated with actinic damage. (references) | |
Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits. | ||
| "Blotchy" is generally used as an adjective (general or positive) -- approximately 76.00% of the time. "Blotchy" is used about 25 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Adjective (general or positive) | 76% | 19 | 80,337 |
| Noun (singular) | 24% | 6 | 143,867 |
| Total | 100.00% | 25 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| Hyphenated Usage | |
Beginning with "blotchy": blotchy-faced. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day |
blotchy skin | 25 |
blotchy red skin | 6 |
blotchy rash | 5 |
blotchy skin treatment | 3 |
antibiotic blotchy rash | 2 |
blotchy | 2 |
blotchy rash red | 2 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Language | Translations for "blotchy"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Albanian | me nishane, i mbuluar me njolla (maculated, mailed). (various references) | |
Bulgarian | на петна (dapple, mottled, piebald, punctate, skewbald, speckled, splotchy, spotted, spotty), покрит с пъпки. (various references) | |
Czech | rozmazaný (fuzzy), poskvrnìný (dappled, flecky, stained). (various references) | |
Danish | plettet skygge (blotchy opacity). (various references) | |
French | opacité pustuleuse (blotchy opacity), fève marbrée (blotchy bean). (various references) | |
German | gefleckt (mottled, specked). (various references) | |
Greek | κηλιδωμένοσ (splotchy, spotted), γεμάτοσ κοκκινίλεσ. (various references) | |
Hungarian | piros foltos, foltos (freckled, spotty, blobby, blurry, flawy, smudgy, splodgy). (various references) | |
Italian | opacità macchiata (blotchy opacity). (various references) | |
Manx | slaait (daubed, dauby, painted, plastered, smearer), cowrit (branded, marked, signed, stamped). (various references) | |
Pig Latin | otchyblay.(various references) | |
Portuguese | manchado (stained). (various references) | |
Russian | кляксами, гнойничковый, пустулезный, покрытый пятнами (maculated, splotchy). (various references) | |
Serbo-Croatian | zamrljan. (various references) | |
Spanish | enrojecido (blotched, blushed), cubierto de manchas (blotched). (various references) | |
Turkish | mürekkep lekeli, lekeli (clouded, dappled, mackled, maculated, smeary, smudgy, splashy, splotchy, spotted, spotty, stained, stigmatic, tainted), kabarmış (bloated, proud, swelled), kızarmış (angry, bloodshot, fried, grilled, roasted). (various references) | |
Ukrainian | вкритий плямами, прищавий (pimpled, pimply, pustular, pustulous). (various references) | |
Vietnamese | có vết bẩn (blotched, smutty, splotchy), đầy vết bẩn (blotched). (various references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references. | ||
Misspellings | |
"Blotchy" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: balouchi, blatch, bletch, Blethyn, bloch, Loschy. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "b-c-h-l-o-t-y" | |
-1 letter: blotch, botchy. | |
-2 letters: botch, bothy, cloth, hotly, octyl. | |
-3 letters: bloc, blot, bolt, both, clot, cloy, colt, coly, holt, holy, loch, loth, toby. | |
-4 letters: bot, boy, cob, col, cot, coy, hob, hot, hoy, lob, lot, tho, thy, toy, yob. | |
-5 letters: bo, by, ho, lo, oh, oy, to, yo. | |
| Words containing the letters "b-c-h-l-o-t-y" | |
+1 letter: botchily. | |
+2 letters: blotchily. | |
+5 letters: thrombolytic. | |
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